China to launch int’l rail freight route «Xian-Almaty»

Kazakhstan-China international rail freight route from Xian, Shaanxi Province of China (PRC), to Almaty will be officially launched on November 28, according to the press service of the international port area “Xian”.

The international container train “Chang’an” will run on “Xian – Baoji – Urumqi – Alashankou – Almaty” route. The total route length is 3860 kilometers, the travel time is 6 days. The new rail line will reduce the delivery time of goods compared to transportation by motor road for more than 20 days.

Local media has named the route as the “golden way” of the economic zone of the Great Silk Road, noting that it will become one of the most profitable freight routes between China and the countries of Central Asia.

Shaanxi Province is the gateway to the North-West of China. It is located in the center of the country and is considered the spiritual birthplace of Chinese culture and history as well as the beginning of the Great Silk Road.

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Charles van der Leeuw, writer, news analyst, was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1952. He started working as an independent reporter on cultural issues in a wide variety of publications back in 1977. Ten years later, he settled down in war-torn Beirut as an international war correspondent, following a first experience in Iraq in 1985, which resulted in his first book on the Iraq-Iran war. After his kidnapping and release in 1989, his second book “Lebanon – the injured innocence” came out, followed, in early 1992, by “Kuwait burns”. Later in the year, he settled down in Baku, Azerbaijan, as a war correspondent. “Storm over the Caucasus” on the southern Caucasus geopolitical conflicts came out in 1997 in the Dutch language and two years later in the first English edition. It was followed by “Azerbaijan – a quest for identity” and “Oil and gas in the Caucasus and Caspian – a history”, both published in 2000, and “Black & Blue” published in Almaty in summer 2003 about the stormy rise of Russia’s present-day oil and gas companies.
In 2012, he published a bipartite book about the histories of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. His latest publication before this work was “Cold War II: cries in the desert – or how to counterbalance NATO’s propaganda from Ukraine to Central Asia”, published by Herfordshire Press, England, along with books similar to this one on Kyrgyzstan, published in English, French and German editions.